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APIs and Mashups r ur new ABCs for E-Learning

eLearning 24-7

An API (Application Program Interface) enables an interface from a piece of software to communicate with another piece of software (in its simplest form) or multiple pieces of software (called a mashup). Twitter has APIs, so does Facebook, even Linkedin. Include: Twitter. Twitter is an example of a micro-blogger, btw.

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Social Network Analysis - Twitter - Social Media - Best Stuff from Last Week

Tony Karrer

4) Social Networks (23) Adoption (8) eLearning Technology. Browse eLearning Content

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10 Ways To Learn In 2010

The eLearning Coach

Here are a few: Amazon’s Askville , Yahoo Answers , Answerbag , Gotta Mentor , BlurtIt , and WikiAnswers. Learn through Twitter. You can search directly on Twitter, but they say the results are less than stellar. Create a Mashup. Two mashup platforms are Pipes and Scrapplet. Real time search is very now.

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danah boyd on teens and 21st century work

Jay Cross

Instead of coding, programmers built apps by mashing up shared packages of code. If a mashup produced a Frankenmonster, you threw it away and tried something else. To tell her friends about breaking up with her boyfriend, she references a song from Life of Brian, Always look on the bright side of life. The 21 st century.

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e-Learning Solutions – All in One Option For EduPreneurs

Academy of Mine

We create a “mash up” of the best eLearning solutions for our members to use. Where conversations are happening online (blogs, forums, Facebook, Twitter etc) so that our members can be notified of those conversations so they can then go and add their voice to the discussion. That’s where Academy of Mine comes in.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Emerging Technologies in e-Learning

Learning Visions

Emerging" = kinds of e-learning that are just starting to show up -- in labs, new company offerings. Self Serve Can also pick up packaged food -- self-service from a vending machine, etc. About Gary: Classroom teacher in the early 70s. 1984 doctorate in applied psychology. Developed over 60 e-learning programs.

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Activity Streams

Jay Cross

An activity stream is a mash-up of an individual’s or organization’s feeds. For example, my FriendFeed pages show activity from this blog, the Internet Time Blog, my Flickr account, bookmarks I put on Delicious, and my entries from Twitter. Last week, Google, Facebook, Nokia, Yahoo!,